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About Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D.
Deacon David H. Delaney, PhD is Director and Senior Fellow at Mother of the Americas Institute. He is incardinated in the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. He is the author of Viri Dignitatem: Personhood, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in the Thought of John Paul II (Emmaus Academic, 2023).
Analysis

Why the Center Cannot Hold

July 16, 2026 Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. 18

Christendom and the moral order of nations G. K. Chesterton once remarked that “it is impossible to have a nation without Christendom; as it is impossible to have a citizen without a city.”1 At first glance […]

Analysis

Continuity and Clarification: On Pope Leo, Pope Francis, and Magnifica Humanitas

May 30, 2026 Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. 12

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas (MH), has received considerable attention, including from sources not ordinarily interested in papal documents. The reason is understandable, given the attention it gives to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Pope […]

Analysis

AI, the Technocratic Paradigm, and Integral Human Fulfillment

March 29, 2025 Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. 5

At the end of January, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, together with the Dicastery for Culture and Education, released a document entitled Antiqua et nova: A Note on the Relationship Between Artificial […]

Analysis

What place does AI have in ministry or the lay apostolate? Part 2

August 22, 2024 Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. 22

Editor’s note: Part One of this essay can be read here. The Dangers of AI in Ministry AI’s development potentially has profound implications for various fields of ministry, where it could serve as a powerful […]

Analysis

What place does AI have in ministry or the lay apostolate? Part One

August 17, 2024 Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. 56

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have brought this computing technology into popular awareness in a dramatic way. Its astounding, creative abilities in natural language processing and computer vision have contributed to a wider awareness […]

Essay

St John Paul II’s wisdom about person and sex for our anti-human age

April 11, 2024 Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. 33

Today the crisis of the human person seems to be reaching a nadir. The apparent successes of efforts to promote confusion about sex and sex difference, which strike at the foundation of the human person, […]

Essay

A crisis of the human person: St John Paul II’s remedy

January 10, 2024 Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. 17

Yesterday, in the name of equality, many progressive voices demanded that women be permitted to act as men, regardless of how corruptly men might act. Today, in the name of equality, these voices say men […]

Essay

The book St. John Paul II did and did not write

November 15, 2023 Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. 2

Viri dignitatem is Latin for “on the dignity of men.” When St. John Paul II published an apostolic letter entitled Mulieris dignitatem (On the Dignity and the Vocation of Women) on the feast of the […]

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